As an example of the benefits of these infrastructure services, he cited Blue Origin, a company designing sub-orbital spacecraft that Bezos himself is behind. They use Amazon's infrastructure APIs and earlier this year their web site needed to handle a huge spike of millions of page and video requests for a few days due to slashdot-type effects. By using Amazon.com web services they were able to dynamically meet that brief, large spike in demand for only a few hundred dollars.